3 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes
Jul. 12th, 2005 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darklunaThe Homer-ism I had totally wrong: Can't talk, seeing Flanders. Later, sex.
In a lovely bit of serendipity, right when I started thinking I might wanna watch Fullmetal Alchemist and see what the big deal is, Cartoon Network got back around to episode 1.
Believe the hype. I really liked it. I am mightily impressed with the handling of backstory in this ep: just enough so you're not lost, put in very intelligently at just the right moments. I've heard a guideline for writing that goes something like "Never reveal something to the audience until they care about it," but I have never seen it practiced so well.
It's practiced better than in Samurai Champloo, where they tend to wait a looong time after you care to reveal anything.
In a lovely bit of serendipity, right when I started thinking I might wanna watch Fullmetal Alchemist and see what the big deal is, Cartoon Network got back around to episode 1.
Believe the hype. I really liked it. I am mightily impressed with the handling of backstory in this ep: just enough so you're not lost, put in very intelligently at just the right moments. I've heard a guideline for writing that goes something like "Never reveal something to the audience until they care about it," but I have never seen it practiced so well.
It's practiced better than in Samurai Champloo, where they tend to wait a looong time after you care to reveal anything.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-07-15 09:51 pm (UTC)